I for one miss the Web Zero - the page-oriented terminals such as the 3270s and the Uniscopes connected terminal controllers and then to mainframes...
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Undefined Behavior deserves a better reputation – SIGPLAN Blog
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Why Omicron quickly became a variant of concern
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Amazon Linux 2022 Offers Competitive Performance Against Ubuntu, CentOS
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Raspberry Pi Plans $500m Spring Listing
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Decorated mammoth ivory pendant is 41,500 years old
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It’s Time to Fear the Fungi
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MacBook Pro 14 Review: Testing Apple M1 Pro Performance Claims – HotHardware
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Creating a less fragile diamond using fullerenes
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> but they will not be one homogenous culture
No, as Humanity is not a homogeneous culture here on Earth. We'll diverge as we make colonies a couple light-hours and we'll diverge a lot more when our worlds are separated by light-years and people and goods take centuries to go from one world to another. Hopefully we can invent some form of FTL travel or, at least, communication so we are less disconnected.
OTOH, wars get really complicated when the fleet takes a century to arrive at its destination, carrying 100 year old weapons.
Samsung-Esperanto Concept AI-SSD Prototype
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When I developed software for Windows, I had two machines on two different networks, on one I could read e-mails, file expenses, and so on. On the other, I was a local administrator. I had access to the internet through a proxy that blocked some websites (so, for instance, I wouldn't be able to look at patents) and nothing else.
Wow!
It's excessive in every single aspect. I'd prefer it to have a plastic shell around all that aluminum, but, even as it is, I want it.
I don't even have the desk space to put it, but, still, I want it.
Do they? I saw they have an APL version, but I don't think there is anything like a Symbolics (such as the "Squid Game" keys)
I wonder if you could pay for it in NFTs
/me ducks
Italy and France sign agreement on space launchers – CNA
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I would not be surprised that, with all the fleet management tooling we have for servers, that it wouldn't be cheaper and simpler to manage a fleet of Linux machines with unprivileged users.
A lot of problems on Windows (and Macs) is with programs the user decided to install.
That's not the biggest issue. Windows is built on layers, some dating back to NT. It's a much more complicated beast than a Mac, where Apple deprecates APIs every now and then. No current Mac can run MacOS 9 applications.
On a Windows PC it's common to go deeper into the OS (say, to figure out why the wi-fi stopped working) and find UIs rendered with 3 different ways to anti-alias text, sometimes in the same window, and that's not even counting the vendor-specific UIs that import their own look and feel. All that speaks volumes how parts of the OS are seemingly left to rot while newer and prettier ones are built on top of the rotting pieces. The result is that every current Windows PC can run ancient windows applications (I believe 16-bit ones, at least, are no longer supported).
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